Joan Laporta, the president of Barcelona, asserted that the club’s ability to conduct transfer activity has been hampered by changes to La Liga rules.
Due to being close to the salary cap once more, the Blaugrana have been unable to sign new contracts. In the summer, they sold off €667 million in assets to free up funds for transfers.
Barcelona’s president, Joan Laporta, revealed during a press conference that MD covered that the club plans to reduce salaries this summer.
“We are all aware that LaLiga implements account-based restrictions. We were given a salary cap that was too high at FC Barcelona. Sports management was challenging for us due to a surplus of $300-350 million.
I’ll never stop praising Mateu Alemany and the football hierarchy. To have a competitive team, we pulled the necessary levers. We will spend €170 million less on salaries during the summer. We have purchased for a total of €215 million and sold for €141 million since we started. We keep going above the payroll cap, which makes La Liga enforce stricter laws.
However, in the most recent conflict between La Liga and Barcelona, led by Presidents Laporta and Javier Tebas, he holds La Liga responsible for the issues that Barcelona is currently experiencing.
“With a tremendous effort, we have registered players, but LaLiga has amended the laws and we are unable to conduct this kind of activity. Our planning process is made more difficult by the ongoing tug of war. We will keep putting in the effort to be accepted, and we will lobby La Liga to loosen the restrictions that keep us from competing with our current opponents. Fair play is more flexible in other countries.
Tebas has recently stated that in order to avoid constraints, Barcelona will need to lower their payroll cost by about €200 million this summer. In order to comply with La Liga regulations, Barcelona would therefore need to make a sale of between €20 and €30 million before July, depending on the player’s salary.